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Post by Carolyn on Oct 13, 2002 12:08:11 GMT -5
... there you are. I was just reading some postings on Amerikanska from a person who had been living in Sweden for some time and then moved back to the States. When she was getting ready to move back, she posted ALL the reasons why, things that she was NOT happy about in Sweden. Now that she's been back in the States, she has posted some of the things she's not happy about in the States, and what I found curious is that they're the same things she was unhappy about in Sweden. Which just goes to prove the maxim above (which I stole from Buckaroo Banzai), "No matter where you go, there you are."
Life's what you make it, folks, and moving from one city to another or one country to another is not going to make THAT much of a difference, because you carry your baggage along with you.
Good luck to everybody who is trying to find happiness where they are with whatever is provided and not wasting time longing after "things" as a means of bringing that happiness.
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Post by Leslie on Oct 13, 2002 12:17:02 GMT -5
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Post by Carolyn on Oct 13, 2002 12:37:53 GMT -5
Well, I felt kind of bitchy after I posted the first one here, but you know, I get so tired of hearing people talk about how GOOD things were back "there", wherever that is, and how they can't wait to get back, knowing that no matter what, when you go back, there's something waiting there you're not going to like too. Also, the person who had this experience is one who had posted several indirect attacks on me for liking my life in Sweden, along the lines of "well, you're going to get sick of walks in the woods and biking", and yet here I am, one year now in the States, and I am SOOOOO homesick for Sweden and my bike and the woods and all my good friends there.  |
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Post by LadyDuff on Oct 13, 2002 13:27:53 GMT -5
I agree with you, I think it is sort of easy to make the country you left seem greater than the one you came to but I think that you have to deal with what you have in the new country and try and have a good life anyways! Of course you are always going to be homesick ever so often, but that happens to everyone!
I think that you are right, what you take with you is what you get here and there and everywhere! I think you have to try things out before you judge them and if this person istn even happy being back home, he or she will never be happy, no matter what!
There is always going to be things you dont like about a new country, just look to what you do like and keep on going! I dont think it is a matter of loving one more than the other, it is about getting used to the new things and learning to live in it!
Hubby and I decided that we would try a year in each country, we have also discussed where to live because we want to have children and due to work and so on. For us the best thing was to move back to Canada, because I have never lived outside of Europe and it would be cool to me to try that! Also the family thing, my parents are going back to Spain when they retire, after that we arent going to have any relatives here, well I am the only one who does have them since they are my parents, but anyways, when they go we wont have family here, so it was easier to move to Canada. We have thought of going to Spain too, but finally I won...hehe....
I know there are going to be things that I am going to miss about Sweden when Im in Edmonton, there are probably going to be things I dont like about living there or people I wont like or whatever, but Im ready to give it a try and try my hardest!
But, it is like you said, if I go there thinking Im going to hate it and everything here is wrong, then it will never be a place I can grow to like!! ....It is all in your attitude!!
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